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New app matches pics from mobile devices to a name, online profiles

New app matches pics from mobile devices to a name, online profiles | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
The NameTag app uses facial recognition software and combs the web for social networking and dating profiles belonging to the unsuspecting passerby.
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ETHICS: Researcher uses botnet to map internet - vital public service, or cybercriminal dodginess? [POLL]

ETHICS: Researcher uses botnet to map internet - vital public service, or cybercriminal dodginess? [POLL] | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
An anonymous researcher just published a paper that claims to have mapped out almost the entire internet for the first, and perhaps the last, time.

Thing is, he used a virus to create a giant bo...
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When research uses practices who go against all Ethics by using a botnet, which means that computer are getting first infected and than later connected together to form a botnet to find out about the map of the internet, one should ask about where RESEARCH is going :((( That certainly isn't good for the reputation of RESEARCH!!!

 

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http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Ethics

 

Gust MEES's curator insight, March 25, 2013 1:19 PM

 

When research uses practices who go against all Ethics by using a botnet, which means that computer are getting first infected and than later connected together to form a botnet to find out about the map of the internet, one should ask about where RESEARCH is going :((( That certainly isn't good for the reputation of RESEARCH!!!

 

Check also:

 

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Ethics